Three Poems
Richard Perez

Vermont

Rain
turning into
Umbrellas;
People
turning into
roadside flares.



goodbye, Barney

Rain on the now-cool beach
she carefully cleans
the pink pail
of her drowned child.

The desperate place

Qua, mes valorum
En scene?
MOLTO! MOLTO!
Semper valorum et shtoom!
Qua.


Richard Perez lives and writes in Bayside, New York.